Elleanthus bambusaceus Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Stachydelyna SECTION Stachydelyna [Rchb.f] Szlach. & Dudek 2023

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Part shade

Common Name The Bamboo-Like Elleanthus

Flower Size

Found in Junin department of Peru in dense montane woods without locational data as a medium sized epiphyte with much branched, erect, rigid, slender, densely leafy stems carrying narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, minutely tridentate apically, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms on a terminal, oblong-cylindrical, erect, subsessile, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, densely 5 to 89 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, equalling to slightly exceeding the flower floral bracts..

"Separated by a pair of widely separated corpuscles located well above the lip cavity base." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 44 Schlechter Peru 1921;

Figuren-Atlas zu den Orchideenfloren der südamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten [Beiheft 57, Repert. Spec. nov. Regn. veg., 1929], t. 13, fig. 46 Schlechter 1929 Drawing fide;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:316 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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